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UPDATE: added the 4K uncensored version
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As I’m sure you know, there was no explicit nudity in American films in 1959, but this is a British film from Hammer Studios, and the uncensored version was made for continental release. The same scene is in the American theatrical release, but was re-edited to eliminate the nudity.
Here is the same scene from both versions of the film, which is now out in HD.
The commmittee’s latest rankings are now public.
The conference championship games have been set.
In the most unlikely match-up, Virginia and Duke will play for the ACC championship. Duke needed about a zillion different things to happen in the last three weeks in order to crack the safe, and all the tumblers somehow fell into place.
If Virginia wins that game, they would be the fourth-best champion, and would therefore get the 11th seed. Duke, with five losses, is unlikely to make the playoff even with a conference championship. Only five conference champions get automatic bids, and they would likely be the sixth-best conference champion, assuming a James Madison win in the Sun Belt
A Duke win is not that unlikely. Virginia is only favored by 3.5.
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In the Big 12, Texas Tech will play BYU. Each team has something important to play for. Tech’s spot in the playoff seems secure, win or lose, but a Tech win is the difference between a first-round bye and a lower spot in the pecking order. A BYU win will guarantee them the tenth seed, but a loss will eliminate them from the playoff.
The game will be played in Arlington (Texas Tech is 300 miles away, in Lubbock), so I suppose neither team has a home field advantage, but Tech has the home state advantage. Tech is favored by 12.5.
WEIRDEST SCENARIO: A BYU win could give the Big Ten three of the first-round byes!
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The loss by Texas A&M means that Georgia and Alabama will play for the SEC championship. Georgia will make the playoff, win or lose, but a win will secure a first-round bye. An Alabama win would guarantee them at least the ninth seed if BYU wins, or at least the tenth seed if BYU loses. Alabama will be one of the bubble boys if they lose.
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Tulane and North Texas will battle for the American Conference title. Based on the committee’s rankings, the winner of that game is guaranteed a playoff spot. In the case of a Duke win in the ACC, the American champ would get the 11th seed. If Virginia wins the ACC, the American champ would get the twelfth seed.
The committee ranks Tulane higher than North Texas, but the bookies disagree. NT is favored by 2.5, even though they are on the road.
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James Madison will battle Troy for the Sun Belt crown. Madison is favored by more than three touchdowns. If they win, and Duke wins the ACC, Madison should get the twelfth seed, promoting the American Conference champion to the eleventh seed.
If Virginia wins the ACC. Madison can’t make the playoff unless the the committee vaults them over the American Conference winner into the twelfth seed. Such a leapfrog seems unlikely, but it’s not impossible because North Texas is only rated one slot higher than Madison in the national rankings, and they are the likely winner in their game against Tulane.
So the kids at James Madison need to steamroll Troy by about a zillion points and root North Texas to look bad in a win. That gives them a hope.
And even with that in the bag on Friday, they’ll also be rooting hard for Duke on Saturday night, because that one gives them a guarantee rather than a hope. This may mark the first time in history that someone other than a Duke student or alum ever rooted for them.
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In the Big Ten, Indiana and Ohio State are playing with house money. They will both make the playoff, the winner will get the top seed, and the loser will still get a first-round bye. (I assume. It’s unlikely that a loss would drop the loser to the fifth slot since that is currently occupied by idle Oregon, which finished below both of them in the same conference.)
The bubble boys
These eight teams seem completely safe for a playoff spot:
Ohio State
Indiana
Georgia
Texas Tech
Oregon
Ole Miss
Texas A&M
Oklahoma
The 11th and 12th seeds will go to the fourth and fifth best conference champions.
A. With a BYU win and an Alabama win, all twelve spots will be filled, leaving these two teams out of the playoff.
Notre Dame
Miami
B. With a BYU win and Alabama loss, there will be eleven secure spots, leaving only one for these three teams:
losing Alabama
Notre Dame
Miami
The committee has ranked Notre Dame over Miami, and they are both idle, so Miami is out in this scenario, and the committee would have to choose between losing Alabama and idle Notre Dame. That’s a tough call, likely to spur a lively debate between two of the most passionate fan bases in America.
C. If both BYU and Alabama lose, there will be only ten secure spots, meaning that two of these teams will make it
losing Alabama
Notre Dame
Miami
In this case, no matter the final ranking of Alabama, Notre Dame is in, and the committee would have to choose between losing Alabama and idle Miami. Another tough one.
Therefore, in order for Miami to make the playoff, three things must happen:
1. BYU must lose (likelihood high; they are 13-point dogs).
2. Alabama must lose (likelihood moderate; they are 3-point dogs).
3. The committee must vault idle Miami over losing Alabama. (likelihood unknown).
The Miami kids need to root for Georgia and Texas Tech.
Yes, I know it would be silly and unjust to leave Notre Dame and Miami out in the cold, while the weaker conference champions make it. The computer rankings list Notre Dame #2 in the nation, and Miami #6. Notre Dame would be nearly a three-touchdown favorite over North Texas or Tulane, approximately a two-touchdown favorite over James Madison, and about a ten-point favorite over BYU.
And Miami is just as good as Notre Dame. In fact, they already beat them earlier this year, thanks to two key Irish turnovers.
Yes, it would be unjust.
But the cookie may crumble that way.
2022 mini-series from Germany.
The journalist Daniel Mandelkern travels to Italy to interview the famous but mysterious novelist Mark Svensson. In his remote lakeside estate, he finds himself entangled in an intriguing love story that ended in a mysterious death.
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4 (w/ Anu Sinisalo)
Episode 7
Episode 8
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English: “I Know You”
Italian drama filled with rough sex – or is it rape?
Femicide, a common occurrence, is at the heart of I Know You , filmed in Naples. Everything that follows this tragic experience endangers the lives of those who have lived through it. The film, written by Laura Angiulli, draws inspiration from a true story, that of a friend of the director’s, who lost her mother in the tragic event at the age of five, and her father to suicide. Nina (Sara Drago) lives a parallel story, searching for the truth and confronting a past trauma. Her life becomes intertwined with the film she is editing, which focuses on jealousy and violence. That ancient childhood trauma cannot help but return with force. A boat trip in the Gulf of Naples brings to light the mysterious disappearance of her husband Giulio (Ludovico Fededegni). Her search leads her to meet Francesco (also played by Fededegni), and it’s like rewinding the tape of her own life, embracing the same man from her first relationship. The relationship increasingly falls apart, fear takes over, so much so that she can’t avoid or avoid running away. What really happened to Giulio? Did he drown, was he murdered, or simply disappear into thin air? When Nina meets Francesco and exclaims, “I know you,” a glimmer of hope appears.
She searches for traces of the past in that man, searching for herself and her tremendously frustrating and oppressive experience. The abyss lies ahead: escape or be overwhelmed by events? This is the excruciating and devastating dilemma she faces.
I Know You also addresses cinema, the traits of great tragedy on the big screen, the passion for mixing dull, ordinary everyday life with the protagonist’s inner torment. Editing and re-editing the same scenes, floating on the boat and in that large, deserted apartment, transform theatrical anguish into a wandering through the city, through its empty rooms. Movement expands the void and simultaneously fills it with horror at human contact. The ferocity of a moment, likely the cause of the death of her loved ones, is for Nina just another unwitting example of two parallel lives, two paths that do not intersect only because of our earthly limitations.
Sara Drago did full-frontal nudity naked in Diabolik, Chi Sei? (2023)
As the good lord intended.
It seems like the true meaning of Thanksgiving to me. I personally am very thankful for this.
Polish drama. I am not familiar with this Polish word, probably because it’s not the kind of thing that came up at the family dinner table. Bab.la says “Wycinka translates to clearing, logging, or deforestation in the context of chopping down trees. Other translations include cutting, clipping out, cutting down or cutting out.”
A television adaptation, or rather a reconstruction after a seven-year hiatus, of Krystian Lupa’s cult play, based on the novel by the renowned Austrian novelist and playwright Thomas Bernhard. This extraordinary and fascinating portrayal of the decaying bohemia explores the issues of artistic freedom and enslavement in today’s world, where space for creativity and self-expression is dwindling.
The guest of honor, a renowned actor from the National Theatre, arrives late for an “artistic dinner” hosted by the Auersbergers. One of the guests is Thomas Bernhard’s alter ego, who, sitting in an armchair and observing the other dinner guests, delivers a monologue about the hosts and diners, former friends…
According to Nudografia, she plays an actress who is naked in a play called “The Naked Princess.” I don’t know anything about Marta other than what I learned from her nudography page. She’s 53 years old and has not done much nudity. (Absolutely none when she was young.)
Softcore erotica from Zalman King.
Donald Trump is famous for asking “Where is my Roy Cohn?” My equivalent question is, “Where is my Zalman King?” Zalman died 14 years ago, and nobody has picked up his torch, the famous Torch of Eternal Horniness, as immortalized by the classical bards.
The Z-man tended to annoy me when he was alive, but I sure miss him now.
In 1958 California, a teenage girl goes to work as a prostitute in a high-class brothel after the death of her father.
All clips, caps and collages from Johnny Moronic:
Nina Siemaszko
Lydie Denier
Julie Wakefield and somebody else
Gloria Reuben
Johnny Moronic’s film clips are here. They include many other unidentified women, some of whom did quite explicit nudity.
Most of the list is new to me, but every baseball fan knows about the 1899 Cleveland Spiders. Among teams that played a full season, they were the worst major league team in history, with 20 wins and 134 losses.
Just before the turn of the century, the National League monopoly was plagued by interlocking ownership, with some owners holding stock in several teams, and some owning majority control of two different clubs. By owning two teams, they would take all the best players to the “A” club to create a super team, leaving the “B” club to die a natural death.
